[ Cisco squints at first against the now brighter lights, but then picks up the laptop, glancing at the elevator over his shoulder and walking about the appropriate distance away from it. Once he has, he opens up the laptop and looks at it, his back turned directly to the elevator. There is no sound, to accompany the changing display indicating the elevator is descending. But Cisco knows that it's there, behind him, coming ever closer, silently.
It doesn't take much more than that. The goggles must be warmed up now, sending their signals to the right places. And of course, there's Taako's magic, too, shaping this into a place to be feared. It just takes a little push of his imagination, to tell himself that as soon as that elevator door opens, he knows who is going to be standing behind it, and what is going to happen next.
And as he's thinking that, heart pounding away against his ribcage, the dream tilts, warps. Not in the way dreams normally change, one scene blurring into another, details surreal and unimportant. There is a weird, almost static-y distortion, and the room around Cisco shifts. Not a generic basement, now, but the basement of S.T.A.R. Labs, filtered through a strange, eerie blue light. Everything is like an overexposed photograph - the contrast too high, the regular colors bleached out. And yet it feels intensely, urgently real, in a way that dreams never do. ]
Okay... ok, this is it. I'm having a vision now, we can get started.
[ Now, instead of just holding a laptop, Cisco is standing in front of a desk with a laptop on it. He doesn't want to reach out and hit the button that will trigger the hologram, but he does it anyway, because that was how it had happened, and he's no longer in control of the scene. He hits a button and a few feet in front of him a shuddery image of a creepy dude with glowing red eyes in a head to toe yellow leather costume appears. It would be comical, if it weren't completely terrifying. Cisco's voice is a shade higher than usual as he says: ]
And we should get started by being somewhere that's not here. Like... anywhere. Um. Soon, please.
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It doesn't take much more than that. The goggles must be warmed up now, sending their signals to the right places. And of course, there's Taako's magic, too, shaping this into a place to be feared. It just takes a little push of his imagination, to tell himself that as soon as that elevator door opens, he knows who is going to be standing behind it, and what is going to happen next.
And as he's thinking that, heart pounding away against his ribcage, the dream tilts, warps. Not in the way dreams normally change, one scene blurring into another, details surreal and unimportant. There is a weird, almost static-y distortion, and the room around Cisco shifts. Not a generic basement, now, but the basement of S.T.A.R. Labs, filtered through a strange, eerie blue light. Everything is like an overexposed photograph - the contrast too high, the regular colors bleached out. And yet it feels intensely, urgently real, in a way that dreams never do. ]
Okay... ok, this is it. I'm having a vision now, we can get started.
[ Now, instead of just holding a laptop, Cisco is standing in front of a desk with a laptop on it. He doesn't want to reach out and hit the button that will trigger the hologram, but he does it anyway, because that was how it had happened, and he's no longer in control of the scene. He hits a button and a few feet in front of him a shuddery image of a creepy dude with glowing red eyes in a head to toe yellow leather costume appears. It would be comical, if it weren't completely terrifying. Cisco's voice is a shade higher than usual as he says: ]
And we should get started by being somewhere that's not here. Like... anywhere. Um. Soon, please.